"...what the fuck is that orb anyway?"
How Dracula does put candles onto air?
What's the point to have so many Chapels in "Dark Demon Lord Castle, muhohoho". Dracula is christian?
Why "Dracula wakes up every 100 years" when he actually wakes up four-five times more frequently?
When Simon beated Dracula first time, who dismembered Dracula in parts and hided them in all those mansions?
"...what the fuck is that orb anyway?"I assume you mean the orb that drops after killing a boss that restores your health at the end of a level? It's just a game mechanic that made it a bit more fair when starting the next level so you weren't continuing on with 1 hit left.
How Dracula does put candles onto air?Magic? Honestly, that's another game-based mechanic that made getting hearts and money a bit easier. That or the developers were just shyte when it came to making a better system. Having candles only in places were there was wall to explain how they were held would have excluded a lot of areas were they could be put, hence the easy/lazy way of doing it by just having candles floating in mid-air. For the sake of argument, I'll also be lazy and say they float due to magic.
What's the point to have so many Chapels in "Dark Demon Lord Castle, muhohoho". Dracula is christian?According to Lament's story, Mathias was a devout Christian fighting in the holy Crusades. That's why it stung him so much when Elizabetha died - he thought that God was betraying all the love and loyalty Mathias had given him by taking his beloved wife away so young. He set out to denounce God and prove he would best God's divine cycle of life and death by becoming a vampire and never dying. When Mathias took for Castlevania and became Dracula, the chapels that were a part of the castle were kept as a mockery towards God. They were meant to be blasphemy. When Dracula met Lisa, perhaps the chapels took on a new meaning, and he kept at least one around for her sake - even after she died. Even though he was in a war against God, he wasn't going to subject his beloved to his views and hatreds. Maybe that's why they show up in games centuries after her death - he kept them there in Lisa's memory.
Why "Dracula wakes up every 100 years" when he actually wakes up four-five times more frequently?Dracula's natural resurrection cycle, brought about by the power of the Demon Castle, is every 100 years. After those 100 years, Dracula is supposedly resurrected with full power. However, as has been made clear, those with enough dark power and resources can resurrect Dracula prematurely - before the 100-year cycle is complete. Death, Shaft, Carmilla, Barlowe and Elizabeth Bartley have all managed to resurrect Dracula before the 100 year anniversary. However, it has been stated that due to being resurrected prematurely, Dracula is not at his full power at those times.
When Simon beated Dracula first time, who dismembered Dracula in parts and hided them in all those mansions?I believe it was Simon himself who dismembered Dracula. In Germanic and Slavic folklore, it was a common practice to decapitate a vampire after slaying it, and separating the body parts. This was believed to guarantee the vampire could not heal itself and rise again. (or in some real-life stories, it was a way to hasten the departure of the soul from the vampire's body)
Where in the blue blazes did Elizabeth come from? Dracula's niece? Huh!? : x
How is it that the Vampire Killer changes from a leather whip to a chain whip to a shiny whip all the time?
Sindra, you have the most interesting theories about the old saga I have EVER read. My God Konami needs you right NOW it's awesome how you connect things, they make sense and they are intriguing at the same time! Congrats man! ;D
Why doesn't Simon wear any pants?
I hope my theory is somewhere close to what they were thinking, mainly because I think my story would hold the a sizable amount of weight. (tooting my own horn there, yes)
My question would be, why did the Belmonts have to go in hiding during the 1800s adn the VK whip had to be given to the Morris clan to take up the reigns in their absense. No real official word has been stated, only fan speculation involving Richter being "tainted" when Shaft possessed him in SotN.
I remember seeing that (in the Portrait of Ruin timeline, right?), and have been waiting for it ever since. How long ago was that? It very well might have been an idea that was either scrapped or shelved. Even if it's not, holy hell do I hope my theory is somewhere close to what they were thinking, mainly because I think my story would hold the a sizable amount of weight. (tooting my own horn there, yes)
That was released back in '06, it would've been interested had they pursued that.OOE is just before Bram Stoker's Dracula, we don't know if Quincy inherited the whip, perhaps he found it, perhaps he bought it in the persian market or ebay we don't know :P
also,
how come there is no Morris in OoE?
how come there is no Morris in OoE?
What I want to know is what was doing between SotN and the Demon Castle War. All we know is that at the end of SotN he is walking away saying that it would be best is he just disappeared. OoE states that the Belmonts disappeared and there was no one else to fight Dracula. This posses the question: Where the hell was Alucard at that time!? Even if the Belmonts weren't around, surely Alucard would be able to pick up the slack.
Like the orbs, it's another game mechanic. But I'll leave it up to Sindra to best explain it :)
He is around one year after the events of Symphony in Nocturne of Recollection to help defeat the incubus Magnus.I thought that the Lecardes were just another offshoot of the Belmonts. As far as I know, Alucard never had any children and probably didn't want to. I mean he even says that "the blood that flows in my veins is cursed. t'would be best for the world if I disappeared forever." I can't see him bringing a child like him into the world.
Judgment states (and keep in mind that Judgment is widely believed as non-canon) that "In the age of no Belmonts, Alucard witnesses Dracula rising and falling many times. He begins to seek a way in which he could permanently destroy his father. When the Vampire Hunter whip is passed down to the Morris Clan, he creates the Alucard Spear with the intention of it supporting the Vampire Killer whip, and he bequeaths it to the Lecarde Clan (some speculate these are his descendants). "
Even without Judgment being canon, I will admit this statement holds some validity. Alucard doesn't want to be the one directly fighting his father. In both Dracula's Curse and even in Symphony, he expressed deep hesitation at the idea of battling against his father because, even though he's the lord of vampires and prince of darkness, Alucard knew him only as his father growing up as a family together with Lisa, and even stuck with his father after Lisa's death. It makes perfect sense that Alucard would much rather enable the Belmont, their descendants, and any other group willing to take up the battle against Dracula instead. So he created the Alucard/Alcarde Spear for the Lecardes, and more than likely helped in other ways. (he might have had a annonymous hand in Ecclesia's research into the science of Glyphs as well, to use as a weapon against Dracula)
So in my mind, Alucard laid low until the time of the Nostradamus Prophecies that would come to pass in 1999. By then, he'd probably affiliated himself with the Vatican and gained vast worldly knowledge in a effort to devise a final solution to banishing Dracula's power once and for all.
Sindra man, please help me with this one:
Are we sure if there's only one Belmont bloodline or could the whip be inherited by another Belmont who isn't son of the last wielder? Juste's nephew being the wielder if he has no sons, or is every Belmont hunter a direct descendant of the last one?
thing is though, in the original vania, you even got one for beating Dracula. Which was ridiculous.
When religion was still deeply rooted in the game's mythology,
A question I would really like the answer to is 'when' did the Belmont family first become endowed with such power?
Id like to know-
in Symphony, at the end, when Alucard tells him Lisa's final words, to not harm humans, he seems to have made his peace with her, understanding her wish.
And yet... later games, he's back, ready to kill some humans despite Lisa's wishes.
This isnt something Id like explained exactly, just something I want to note.
It pisses me off, and always has, that Chronicles/Ayami Simon Belmont carries a sword with him as well as the whip, and he even weilds them both in his artwork, BUT YOU NEVER ACTUALLY GET TO USE A SWORD.
God damn, at least give him the sword as a secondary weapon!
There could be some for of simplistic magic involved with this. The internal workings of the combat cross could be like that of a bag of holding. A bag of holding is a pocket dimension that allows you to store much more items then your standard backpack or belt bag without the weight effecting you in the slightest. The combat cross could have a pocket dimension infused into it in order to hold vast amounts of chain. AS for the rest of the mechanism, I'm going to assume it's part of some kind of enchantment or spell.
-In Dracula X, you can see the castle far away in the background, AS YOU'RE ENTERING THE CASTLE. I don't think the following hallways are big enough to take you all the way over to that castle in the background, and up to the keep.
Well, the big complaint I have about Rondo's level design is that apparently, in the alternate paths, Richter just sort of wanders miles out of his way before returning to the castle. Things like the raft stage and the ghost ship are weirdly out of place, and leave you wondering how and when he got back to the castle, and why he ran away like that.
Plus, in the alternate route, he ends up exploring the underground Atlantis which somehow leads into the clock tower which seems to be set in a rocky cliff-side rather than the castle.
Something I want explained:
Flea Men reproduce by WakWak tree (they emerge fully clothed, no less!)
Each Wakwak tree produces a new fleaman roughly every 3-5 seconds.
Flea Men have existed at least as far back as Lament of Innocence, and likely are a natural species.
So, why doesn't the world look like this?
(https://castlevaniadungeon.net/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi5.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fy185%2FRidureyu%2Fforumstuff%2Ffleamanworld.png&hash=1bbd08e9da9888b80c57c02ec6a486f385e9c7a7)
FleaMan is a rather new name, too.They also had a version of this enemy in Legacy of Darkness as well. Anyone remember what they were called in that game?
There seem to be four species of jumping nasty short monster:
1. Hunchbacks (CV1, CV3, X68000)
2. SabreTooth Rabbits (Akumajo Densetsu, Super Castlevania IV)
3. FleaMen (DraculaX, SotN, AoS, DoS, PoR)
4. Creepers (Belmonts' Revenge)
What a topic to come back to! Sindra, your explanations are lovely.
Now for some questions of my own...
In SoTN, was the Succubus' death sexual in nature (e.g. rape) or just the product of horrible voice acting?
Also, in Order of Ecclesia, did Shanoa get those glyphs when she entered Ecclesia (branded, tattooed) or did she have them when she was taken in? The marks look consistent with scarification, but I am still unsure.
There are probably more I can't quite recall at the moment.
Total mortal kombat spoilerMan, you are a dick.
1. Product of voice acting. Also, succubi pretty much always make inappropriate noises.
2. I assume she got the tattoos after "joining" Ecclesia as a little orphan kid.
3. Snape kills Dumbledore
...I thought i had put in a spoiler tag. Well, it's not a perfect spoiler, anywayI wasn't spoiled wahahah relax man, this is a Cv board so I can't blame you :P(click to show/hide)
What a topic to come back to! Sindra, your explanations are lovely.1) Bad voice acting. She is suppose to scream, not have an orgasm.
Now for some questions of my own...
In SoTN, was the Succubus' death sexual in nature (e.g. rape) or just the product of horrible voice acting?
Also, in Order of Ecclesia, did Shanoa get those glyphs when she entered Ecclesia (branded, tattooed) or did she have them when she was taken in? The marks look consistent with scarification, but I am still unsure.
There are probably more I can't quite recall at the moment.
I wonder why Juste decorates a room in the castle that he is going to destroy anyway?OCD?
I wonder why Juste decorates a room in the castle that he is going to destroy anyway?I lol'd. That's so true and indeed stupid.
I lol'd. That's so true and indeed stupid.
I think you can just chalk that one up to "Rule of Cool".Yeah, having Boris Karloff starring in CV isn't bad. :p
I've always figured that The Creature's appearance in Castlevania still kinda makes sense since Mary Shelley's Frankenstein hasn't been confirmed as canon in the timeline. We can't include those events since they technically never happened. I've just assumed he was 'created' on a different date in the timeline...unless there is a bestiary entry that says otherwise.Well, they never say it's Frankenstein's monster. They just call it the creature. I doubt that there was just one mad scientist experimenting with the idea of artificial life. Especially in Dracula's castle.
I would like to know if Barlowe was actually a evil character or was corrupted by Dominus as some have suspected. OoE had a very interesting plot, but this is a rather glaring hole that should have been explained.I think Barlowe was rather mad since the very beginning of OoE. He'd be a dark priest, like Shaft, hiding in secret and trying to get Dracula back. Dominus may have made him go completely mad in the end, but it may bot have been the main source of his madness. It could also been Drac's soul, trapped in the same room.
Why does the Creature/Frankenstein's Monster appear in the Castlevania timeline, BEFORE Dr. Frankenstein created it in the 17th/18th century?
It may be a simple confusion from the developpers, but I think I'd share it.
He was Frankenstein way back in the first few games...
Yeah, but do they have any mythological background whatsoever?I read times ago that Slogra was a dragon in Scandinavian mythology.